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Robot (Paperback)
Adam Wisniewski-Snerg; Translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz
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The first English-language publication of one of the greatest
Polish science fiction novels of all time 'We have given you life
... so that you could discover a fraction of the great secret.' Is
BER-66 a human or a robot? His controllers, known as 'the
Mechanism,' tell him he is a living machine, programmed to gather
information on the inhabitants of the strange underground world he
finds himself in. But as he penetrates its tunnels and locked
rooms, encountering mysterious doppelgangers and a petrified city,
he comes closer to the truth of his existence. Considered one of
the most important Polish science fiction novels of all time, Robot
is a haunting philosophical enquiry into the nature of our reality
and our place in the universe. 'An instant classic which catapulted
Snerg to the rank of Poland's best sf authors' Science Fiction
Encyclopedia
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Killing The Second Dog (Paperback)
Marek Hlasko; Translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz; Introduction by Lesley Chamberlain
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"Hlasko's story comes off the page at you like a pit bull."--The
Washington Post "His writing is taut and psychologically nuanced
like that of the great dime-store novelist Georges Simenon, his
novelistic world as profane as Isaac Babel's."--Wall Street Journal
"Spokesman for those who were angry and beat ...turbulent,
temperamental, and tortured."--The New York Times "A must-read
...piercing and compelling."--Kirkus Reviews "A self-taught writer
with an uncanny gift for narrative and dialogue."--Roman Polanski
"Marek Hlasko ...lived through what he wrote and died of an
overdose of solitude and not enough love."-- Jerzy Kosinski, author
of The Painted Bird and Being There "A glittering black comedy
...that is equally entertaining and wrenching." -- Publishers
Weekly "The idol of Poland's young generation in 1956." -- Czeslaw
Milosz, 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature Robert and Jacob are
down-and-out Polish con men living in Israel in the 1960s. They're
planning to run a scam on an American widow visiting the country.
Robert, who masterminds the scheme, and Jacob, who acts it out, are
tough, desperate men, adrift in the nasty underworld of Tel Aviv.
Robert arranges for Jacob to run into the woman, whose heart is
open; the men are hoping her wallet is too. What follows is a story
of love, deception, cruelty, and shame, as Jacob pretends to fall
in love with her. It's not just Jacob who's performing a role;
nearly all the characters are actors in an ugly story, complete
with parts for murder and suicide. Marek Hlasko's writing combines
brutal realism with smoky, hardboiled dialogue in a bleak world
where violence is the norm and love is often only an act. Marek
Hlasko, known as the James Dean of Eastern Europe, was exiled from
Communist Poland and spent his life wandering the globe. He died in
1969 of an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills in Wiesbaden,
Germany.
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